Flash stood by the ginger that lay unconscious in the med bay of the mountain. It was weird to think a villain was lying helpless in their medical ward. So far though, no one else knew. Flash had called Batman and Black Canary to come meet the little speedster. Flash though at the moment had his mask down, not worried about his identity at all, occasionally running his fingers through his fair hair. Blue eyes locked on the emotionless face of the thin teen.

"Who is he?" Robin muttered to himself. Obviously he was a Meta. And he had been with the rouges for some time based on the way the interacting.

"Robin. Flash. Superboy," came a stoic voice. Flash stood first, actually making eye contact with the bat. His face serious, almost frightening. But Superboy didn't know to fear that fact as he didn't know much of the scarlet speedster and Robin was trained by Batman who was good at hiding emotions. Batman walked over to the boy and pulled out a needle. He effortlessly found a vein and drew a little blood. Once he was done the sample was slipped into the belt. He looked back at Flash nodding slightly.

"Do not let him escape. Do not take him to where the other rogues are. Do not leave him alone. Not until we know more about him," he said leaving toward a lab. They all nodded. Once he was gone Flash went to looking back at the boy.

Superboy also turned to look at him if only for a moment. Was he a failed clone? Was he just a Meta? Was he a g-gnome? He looked away in thought. Robin, bored and curious began researching people who were missing who matched his description. Neither Superboy nor Robin really noticed when Flash began stroking the ginger's hair out of his eyes. Nor the slight twitch of his nose that happened because of it. Flash let out a small smile seeing the boy responding. His smile grew larger when his eyes started to open. Green bleary orbs looked up into warm blue pools before closing again.

He groaned and turned to his side.

"Five more minutes," he groaned renewing the attention for Superboy and Robin in time to see him grab the sheet and pull it over his shoulder, his back facing Flash. Flash chuckled at the boy's response.

"Alright kiddo," he replied warmly. Not more than a moment later the kid jolted out of bed, falling to the floor. His eyes now awake and sparking with fear and curiosity.

"Where am I?" he said looking around, not recognizing the place as a Central City location. At least not one he knew of. His eyes grew wider in a comical manner that made Robin laugh. His head flicked over in Robin's direction and he froze.

"Oh man," he whimpered.

"You don't look like you're feeling the aster," he said with a comforting smile. The phrase made the ginger confused. When Robin opened his mouth to explain, he was interrupted by the ginger.

"But aster… that's a type of flower. Why would I feel it?" he asked innocently. It was a rare moment when Robin looked confused.

"Is it really?" he asked.

"Uh… yeah?"

"Who are you?" Superboy grunted not liking how he didn't know this kid who obviously knew more of Cadmus than most. Willis felt his heart speed up in his chest. And an itch to run like all hell was loose.

"W-W-Willis," he stuttered a bit getting to his feet, moving his back to the wall.

"Easy kiddo. No one is going to hurt you," said a comforting voice. Willis looked over and froze out of shock. There stood the Flash sans his mask. And he looked very similar to Captain Cold. There were differences yes. His skin was darker by a shade and his hair was unruly like he had just run despite being so short. His eyes were warmer than Cold's usually were and held merriment and mirth. A true blue smile was visible where a playful scowl or smirk would transpire on Cold's. He felt his fear begin to slowly melt away. Flash was not one to hurt people. Even his own rogues.

"Okay," he said softly as he willed his heart to slow down taking away his urge to run. He took a deep breath and let it out slowly, "Can I at least have the common courtesy as to know where the hell I am?"

Flash tutted, "Language kiddo."

Willis felt his cheeks warm up slightly, "Would you stop calling me that?"

It was bad enough that the rogues had decided to start calling him Baby Flash (which was mostly on James's part but still) but now for a cape to call him Kiddo? Oy. And that would only mean that Flash would go out of his way to see him at any Rogue location. Speaking of…

"Why am I here… And you never told me where I was!" he added.

"You're in a safe place," Flash said zipping around the bed to ruffle Willis's hair. His cheeks began to rival his hair color, making his freckles vanish, as he tried to run past the Flash, which in the end resulted in him being in a bear hug from the older speedster. He felt something in his head when he was embraced. A tickle of sorts. A vision of a blond man smiling at him and a woman with red hair smiling with him. Iris.

He blinked and resumed squirming in the hero's embrace. Robin laughed and Superboy merely grunted. Once Flash had let go, Willis looked disgruntled to say the least. His hair was messy, almost looked windblown. A look of mild annoyance was on his face but that didn't change the fact that a smile had also made its way there. It made Flash laugh. The laugh made Willis's face change to curiosity. Sure he had heard the Flash laugh before. But there was something different. Something new. And someone grabbing his ankles? He glanced at the wall. Right. Chrome. Reflective. Duh. In an instant he was pulled into the wall shocking the group. Flash reached out to try and grab Willis but was too late as the mirror dimension closed. He muttered dark words to himself being one not to curse.

"I see he escaped."

Robin and Superboy turned to see Batman and Black Canary. Flash looked at his own reflection for a second before facing the other leaguers.

"What's the result?"

Batman opened his mouth when…

"THE ROGUES ESCAPED!" yelled Artemis furiously. Batman closed his mouth as the archer dashed past before stopping to get Robin and Superboy to help search.

"They wouldn't be in the mountain anymore," Batman stated, "Mirror Master has most likely taken them back to Central City."

"The kid Bats?" Flash asked impatiently.

"Positive," Bats answered. Flash's face changed like fluid with joy, surprise, anger, relief, acknowledgement, happiness, sadness and worry.

"Wally."

And I wrote th-i-i-is… for a Klondike bar!(bull crap) Please review!